I watched a really cheesy movie last night called “Twelve“. It had popped up in the new movies section and clicked play instead of more information on accident and decided to roll with it. Twelve is what you might call a trash movie, lots of young actors and actresses, drug use, and violence. There was one gem in the movie (for me anyway) the main character imagines his deceased mother telling him (paraphrasing):

Be the best you can at everything you do.

I really like that message for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that it’s easy to not live up to your potential. That message stuck with me and this morning as I walked into each room I thought to myself:

What can I do better?

and I made a commitment to do everything I do this week “better”.

Imagine the impact if we all took the time, the extra few seconds to consider “how can I do this better”. This week I’m making a commitment to be the best I can at everything I do, will you join me in this exercise?

In Joe's day job he helps manufacturers eliminate waste in their engineering, CNC programming and machining departments. He is currently 2018-2019 chair of the Sacramento Valley SME, an avid Maker and current Mechatronics student.